"Ma'am, I don't know if you have ever been in the position of showing up to school wearing Kmart Blue Light Special sneakers when everybody else is sporting Chuck Taylors. Middle

Temporal Hecuba was the granddaughter of Harold Hecuba. Not that that matters to our story but there it is. Temporal isn't even in this story past this fold. See to that, please.

It doesn't matter who you are or how smart, stupid can always get you; directly or indirectly. Take Aeon Peck, for instance. Aeon was on a space survival vacation on Io when Doofus

Will the Rapture be able to find me if I move to Mars? If I get buried on Mars, can I still participate in the Resurrection? Will the Kingdom of God be in network if I'm on Mars?

Being barred from Heaven 2, even though he was the manager of Heaven 2, eventually irked Jesus enough that he set up a separate, more exclusive, Heaven 3. The first harp player to

Outside, in the vestibule, the grommet maker waited with her VP of Sales by the fountain. From inside, looking through the stained glass porthole, they appeared to be out of sorts.

Just because I'm blind doesn't mean that I've gone deaf yet. I have but the latter was not in any way contingent upon the former. Except that it was because I was blind that I rang

I feel like the Cheyenne grandfather in Little Big Man who lay down to die but got bored waiting for death. Then cold. The snowflakes fell on his nose. He would try again next week

Then I remember how in Manon of the Springs, Papet wills himself dead upon learning the injustice he has done to his hunchback son, & by extension, Florette, Manon, & himself. Comb

Some will say that it was a broken heart that killed him. We'd already seen that he had a stone of heart. So breaking it wouldn't have been enough to kill him. That is the same as

Being stoned at a Heart concert for blasphemy wasn't even on my radar that day at the Toledo Speedway. Nor was almost being run over by the maintenance guy backing at a high speed.

I mean, who is going to cast the first stone at a Heart Concert? Nancy? Ann? The sextuplets born backstage to a couple of roadies? I doubt they could lift a pebble yet. Joe Perry?

Oh, you say it isn't the size of the stone that matters. As long as it is the first one cast. Ok, so maybe, physically, one of the sextuplets could have cast a pebble. What motive?

Divine retribution is automatic. The fabric is self healing. Marred today, pristine tomorrow. Today's warp and weft lost to the eternities since then. Equilibrium was the motive.

Someday, this sentence will be true for you. You're welcome.

Look, I don't know how many eyes you've got. I don't know how many I've got. I've got a lot. At least two. I'm just saying how many it is, we should be able to see eye to eye once.

Today on our tour of corners around the world, we find ourselves in San Diego, California in 1983. Today's corner is actually a street corner near the downtown rail yard. Homeless

Next week on World Tour of the World's Corners we will be touring the corners of room 217 of an abandoned prison for the criminally insane. The crew finds an unknown corner under a

Sending off the kids to go play in the killing fields known as public school ensures no new voters in a few years. The voters will tend older and older and stickier in the mud.

The school system is broke. The right is mad because kids aren't being indoctrinated enough to their point of view. The left is mad because not everybody's bliss is being nurtured.